[Icecast] Metadata in xsl files

[A. Craig West]

The problem is thatthere are still platforms that can't be depended on to
have support for Ogg Vorbis.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Philipp Schafft <lion at lion.leolix.org>
wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 12:42 -0500, A. Craig West wrote:
> > So why does the ices.conf file have <Protocol>http</Protocol> ic it is
> > going to use icy anyways?
>
> ices 0.x is no longer supported for more than a decade.
> It uses a HTTP based upstream but downstream is ICY as MP3 can not be
> transmitted over HTTP with metadata. And ICY's metdata support is broken
> all the way.
>
> *Those problems are inherent to MP3 streaming.*
>
> We really recommend not to use MP3 at all. Ogg/Vorbis and Opus don't
> have those problems.
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> --
> Philipp.
>  (Rah of PH2)
>
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